Mommybrain

My new favorite piece of online software can be found at http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/. And Thor is my hero.

Let me explain…

Yesterday was Quinn’s “really, really, really big pahty”, as mentioned in my post the other day. It went off without a hitch. I think the adults had as much fun as the kids. We had Enzo, we had a pinata, we had cupcakes, we had games, we had presents, we had wine. So much fun and activity in fact that we filled our digital camera card. The party was winding down and we had a few more shots we wanted to take. I took the Flash card out of the camera and downloaded some of the photos onto my computer to clear some space. Thor then put the card back in the camera. And deleted all of the photos. No more pinata pix, no more cupcake/candle blowing pix, no more gift-opening pix. Gone. All of them. I was heartsick. I was mad at Thor. I was mad at myself. I was just mad.

After passing out last night on the sofa at about 10 and then sleeping like a rock all night I was awoken this morning at 6ish by the post-birthday boy himself. He crawled in bed with us for a while and I fell back to sleep. About 30 minutes later he wanted to get up. He asked “Please can I go up and see Goggy?” “Sure,” I answer, grateful that my parents are still in town and staying with us. He heads upstairs, I settle back in to enjoy a rare sleep-in and then it hits me with all the power of a fresh breakup. We lost all those pictures. In our media-driven, photo-blogging, flickr-using world, somehow it’s as if the thing never happened if there aren’t pictures to prove it. I am unable to fall back asleep. I keep mentally kicking myself. Why didn’t I just say to Thor, “I cleared some space, but didn’t download all the pictures.” It would’ve taken me 10 seconds to say this. 10 seconds. *sigh*.

Thor finally wakes up and senses that I am unhappy. We commiserate. And then, brilliant man that he is, he says, “Remind me to see if there’s any way to recover lost data on a Flash card”. I ask him, with a trembiling hope, how this could be possible? He explains how it works for hard drives on computers and that it could be possible for flash cards as well but he’s not certain. I stop hitting myself over the head with a pillow chanting “stupid, stupid stupid” and eagerly reply, “Ok, let’s get up and check.”

Guess what? It is possible.